Back home again : Indiana in the Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1943 / edited by Robert L. Reid.

Title & Author:

Back home again : Indiana in the Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1943 / edited by Robert L. Reid.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 144 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-142).
Brown and Martin counties -- Resetllement projects -- The great flood of 1937 -- People and places -- A farm auction -- At work -- A day in the life of a hired hand -- At play -- Transportation -- World War II.

Summary:

"Back Home Again consists almost entirely of 132 photographs--but what photographs! These pictures from the Great Depression and the World War II homefront document a brief and often troubling period in the lives of some typical Hoosiers. The limiting word is "some," for the Farm Security Administration photographers worked on specific assignments and did not cover the full range of Indiana society or geography. Their subjects were chiefly the ordinary people of farms and small towns, mainly in central and southern Indiana. Indianapolis is well represented in numbers, but the peacetime pictures seem rather cold and distant when compared with the intensely human drama of the farms and small towns. A more emotional atmosphere appears in the pictures taken at Fort Benjamin Harrison and the wartime bus station. Robert L. Reid's comments are brief but helpful, describing the photographic program of the Resettlement Administration of 1935, renamed the Farm Security Administration after the Department of Agriculture absorbed it in 1937. Unlike some picture books, the images here are sharply printed in a generous six-by-eight-inch format and carefully identified by photographer, location, date, and Library of Congress file number ... From the improverished farmers in the hills of Brown County to the great flood of 1937 and the young soldiers and sailors of 1942, Dorothea Lange, Theodor Jung, and their colleagues produced an eloquent record of a not-so-distant yet long-ago Indiana. Reid has selected a few of their finest photographs for this attractive volume"--Patrick J. Furlong, scholarworks.iu.edu.

ISBN:

0253311330
9780253311337
0253212464 (pbk.)
9780253212467 (pbk.)

Subject:

Manners and customs.
Indiana Pictorial works.
Indiana Social life and customs Pictorial works.
Indiana Description and travel Views.
Indiana Ouvrages illustrés.
Indiana Mœurs et coutumes Ouvrages illustrés.
Indiana.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Reid, Robert L., 1938-
United States. Farm Security Administration.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 4731
Call No.: ID:87-B20182
Status: Available

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